 For ""his efforts in public security work"", Wang was awarded the rank of Major General of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, also in 1955.In June 1958 Mao suddenly demoted Wang, sending him to Jiangxi as Director of the Provincial Land Reclamation Department.From February 1959 to August 1960, Wang served as member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party Jiangxi Provincial Committee, and as Vice President and Party Secretary of the Communist Labor University of Jiangxi.